Abstract
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasizes improving quality and efficiencies across settings in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule for 2012. Hospitals will receive a 1% market basket increase in reimbursement. CMS announced a Medicare spending-per-beneficiary measures that will be used in the Value-Based Purchasing program and the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program. CMS is adding new quality measures involving infection control in 2014 and 2015.
MeSH terms
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. / economics
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. / standards*
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Clinical Coding / economics
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Clinical Coding / standards*
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Cost Savings
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Documentation / economics
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Documentation / standards
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Humans
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Inpatients
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International Classification of Diseases / economics
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International Classification of Diseases / standards
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Prospective Payment System / standards*
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Quality Assurance, Health Care / economics
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Quality Assurance, Health Care / standards*
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United States